wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-plugins-controller.php:461Updates one plugin.
$requestWP_REST_RequestWP_REST_Response|WP_Error public function update_item( $request ) { require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php'; $data = $this->get_plugin_data( $request['plugin'] ); if ( is_wp_error( $data ) ) { return $data; } $status = $this->get_plugin_status( $request['plugin'] ); if ( $request['status'] && $status !== $request['status'] ) { $handled = $this->handle_plugin_status( $request['plugin'], $request['status'], $status ); if ( is_wp_error( $handled ) ) { return $handled; } } $this->update_additional_fields_for_object( $data, $request ); $request['context'] = 'edit'; return $this->prepare_item_for_response( $data, $request ); }Introduced in 5.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-plugins-controller.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.